The frontend is the part of a web site that you can see and interact with, while the backend is all the rest.

By Adda Birnir (Co-Founder, Balance Media & Skillcrush)

The frontend is the part of a web site that you can see and interact with, while the backend is all the rest.

You know how the tip of an iceberg pokes out above the water, but they’re really hundreds of feet deep? That’s a lot like a web site. The parts you see and interact with on a web site – the buttons, the dropdown menus and big bold fonts – make up the frontend.

The frontend of a web site has specific technologies attached to it. HTML makes up the text on the page, CSS makes it pretty, and JavaScript makes it interactive.

CASCADE SF is hosting Innovators of the Web Conference on July 21 in San Francisco. The lineup is stellar with speakers including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Developer Estelle Weyl of Standardista speaking on “Select this” and mobile-focused front-end developer Tomomi Imura speaking on “Creating Mobile Apps with HTML5″.

Top talent in the industry will cover best practices of HTML5, CSS3, and mobile design, focusing on product design for an optimal user experience.